Although I am highly disappointed by the low level of discourse on Kerala/Chechnya, I do have a serious question that might deflect the discussion.
Are the ethnic hostilities something that would naturally die out without being enflamed intentionally for political gains or are they inevitable? --- In the case of Russia/Chechnya, I think ethnic divisions were dying out slowly over the Soviet period for a variety of reasons (though Stalin's deportation of Chechens and other groups and the violent application of the Short Course in Western Ukraine and the Baltics increased them in those areas). In any case, they have gotten much much worse since 1991. Caucasians were depicted as happy-go-lucky Bohemians on Soviet TV. They are portrayed as gangsters, pimps and terrorists on contemporary Russian TV. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail
